Loudon County sheriff's deputies conducting a traffic stop on Easter Sunday found a surprise: 30 pounds of suspected methamphetamine, billed in a news release as the largest meth seizure in the county's history.

A deputy pulled over a vehicle about 10:20 a.m. Another officer deployed a drug detection dog, who alerted on the vehicle, according to a news release from the 9th Judicial District Attorney General's Office.

The officers searched the vehicle and discovered a bag in the trunk of the car that contained "several large bundles" of suspected meth, the release reads.

Authorities said the seizure was valued at "well over half a million dollars."

The driver of the vehicle, Ariel Vera-Media, of Camden, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with possession of meth for resale, a class B felony.

He appeared in court Monday and was being held in lieu of $500,000 bond. His next court date is set for April 11.